Describe the religious and educational institutions using the functionalist and conflict approaches.

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Functionalist and conflict

Describe the religious and educational institutions using the functionalist and conflict approaches.

Describe how critically analyzing popular culture has informed your individual framework of perception. Consider how it has altered the way you perceive the community around you and/or the world.

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5-2 Activity: Reflection: Self

In this activity, you will first describe how critical analysis skills have affected your framework of perception. Next, you will describe how examining your bias might change how you interact with popular culture. Finally, you will explain how critical analysis skills can impact your academic or professional life.
You are not required to address each item below the rubric criteria, but you may use them to better understand the criteria and guide your thinking.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
1. Describe how critically analyzing popular culture has informed your individual framework of perception.
A. Consider how it has altered the way you perceive the community around you and/or the world.
2. Describe how examining your bias may alter the way you engage with popular culture personally or professionally.
A. Reflect on your own bias and then consider how an awareness of one’s bias can change how you interact with popular culture.
3. Explain how critically analyzing popular culture can influence Criminal Justice.
A. Consider how studying popular culture might inform your understanding of the next big topic of study in Criminal Justice

Describe effective methods you used in identifying and narrowing down to just one of the topics to further research for your Final Paper. Explain three ways you can critically analyze sources to determine if they are scholarly.

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GEN499: General Education Capstone (GSV2311D)

Prepare: Prior to beginning work on this discussion forum, review the Narrowing a Topic and Developing a Research QuestionLinks to an external site. web page and Integrating ResearchLinks to an external site. tutorial. These resources will help you in developing a topic.

It is also recommended that you review these tutorials from the UAGC Library:

You may also want to review the Sample Final Paper GEN499 Download Sample Final Paper GEN499, so that you can start preparing your rough draft that is due in Week 4.

Reflect:When considering a research topic, consider an interesting topic that is worth further research. For instance, having a strong opinion on a specific topic may deter you from thinking more critically, and therefore the research might end up being one-sided. It is a good idea to pick a topic in which you can provide a good argument for both sides of the societal issue.

Write: For this discussion, address the following prompts:

  • Identify a global societal issue from the following list that you would consider researching further for your Week 5 Final Paper:
    • Climate change
    • Religious conflict and violence
  • Describe effective methods you used in identifying and narrowing down to just one of the topics to further research for your Final Paper.
  • Explain three ways you can critically analyze sources to determine if they are scholarly.
  • Summarize information from at least two scholarly journal articles from the UAGC Library that will support your claims for your chosen topic.
  • Explain why scholarly sources should be used to support your writing on the selected topic.
  • Download and attach a PDF copy of one of the peer-reviewed scholarly articles that you found from the UAGC Library to your answer using the “Attach” function located below your response.

Your initial post should be at least 350 words in length, which should include a thorough response to each prompt. You are required to provide in-text citations of applicable required reading materials and/or any other outside sources you use to support your claims. Provide full reference entries of all sources cited at the end of your response. Please use correct APA format when writing in-text citations

Based on your viewing of both documentaries, submit a paper that discusses how family members respond to having a child/sibling with a disability and how each of these three former Willowbrook residents, Patty, Luis, and Bernard, each adapted to being deinstitutionalized.

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Sociology health and Illness

Unforgotten: Twenty-Five Years After Willowbrook – Full Movie

2) To gain an understanding of what family members described in the documentary “Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook” view “Willowbrook: The Last Disgrace” – Willowbrook This documentary vividly depicts the conditions within this New York State institution ca. 1972. Note this documentary depicts horrific and disturbing conditions found within the institution.

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This documentary vividly depicts the conditions within this New York State institution ca. 1972. Note this documentary depicts horrific and disturbing conditions found within the institution.

3) Based on your viewing of both documentaries, submit a paper that discusses

  • a) how family members respond to having a child/sibling with a disability and
  • b) how each of these three former Willowbrook residents, Patty, Luis, and Bernard, each adapted to being deinstitutionalized.

4) Your paper MUST have four (4) separate sections as per above: One section should discuss family members plus three separate sections. Each section MUST discuss each of the three former Willowbrook residents. (Worth 8 points)

5) Your paper must be at least two pages in length (Worth 1 point) and written using paragraphs. If you do not double space between paragraphs one point will be deducted. (Worth 1 point)

6) Your paper must reference (using APA format) relevant terms and concepts from the Weitz textbook chapters 5 and 6 which have been posted on Canvas under announcements. (Worth 1 point)

Consider the skills you have developed in the process of doing critical analysis as strategies for understanding your goals. How might those skills be used to better understand popular culture? How could they be used to address the day-to-day responsibilities or questions faced by yourself as well as practitioners in your field or discipline?

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4-2 Activity: Critical Analysis: Engage

Module Four Activity

Overview

For this activity, you will consider how your popular culture example could expand our understanding of different cultures and people. You will also suggest ways that critical analysis can be used to meet personal and professional goals. This activity contributes to your draft of the critical analysis section of your project. It also provides an opportunity to obtain valuable feedback from your instructor that you can incorporate into your project submission.

Directions

In this activity, you will work on the second part of the critical analysis of your example within an area of popular culture. You should consider the feedback from your instructor on the previous activities to inform this assignment. Throughout the writing process, you will support your analysis with reliable evidence from varied sources. You should continue to gather the sources you will integrate into your project. These sources will include two resources from the module resources sections of this course and two resources that you find through your own research using the Shapiro Library. It may be beneficial to identify more than the number of sources required for the project so that you can eventually choose the most useful and credible ones. For this activity, you will assess how the popular culture example you chose could broaden an outsider’s understanding of the cultures or people that engage with it. You will also describe how an element of your chosen example reflects your field of study or profession. Finally, you will recommend strategies for using critical analysis skills for meeting personal and professional goals.

You are not required to address each item below the rubric criteria, but you may use them to better understand the criteria and guide your thinking.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
1. Integrate reliable evidence from varied sources throughout your paper to support your analysis.

  • A. It is important to draw from a more diverse pool of perspectives from varied sources to support the analysis, which is different from the Citations and Attributions rubric criterion.
  • B. Reliable evidence from varied sources should be interwoven throughout the paper itself. Citing and attributing sources will be represented as APA in-text citations and a reference list at the end of your work.
  • C. You will be evaluated on both criteria.

2. Assess how the example you chose could broaden an outsider’s understanding of the cultures or societies depicted in it or the people who engage with its popular culture area.

  • A. An “outsider” is someone who is not part of a culture or society connected to a particular area of popular culture.
  • B. Consider how the example you chose could contribute to understanding others in productive ways that do not reinforce negative representations of other people.

3. Describe how the example you chose reflects an aspect of your field of study or profession.

4. Recommend strategies for using this kind of critical analysis for meeting your personal and professional goals.

  • A. Consider the skills you have developed in the process of doing critical analysis as strategies for understanding your goals. How might those skills be used to better understand popular culture? How could they be used to address the day-to-day responsibilities or questions faced by yourself as well as practitioners in your field or discipline?

What is the solution to stop the rise of homegrown terrorism in the U.S.? Should more gun control laws be enacted in the U.S.? Should there be a legal penalty for using racial slurs?

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Sociology question

Answer all the question

  1. What is the solution to stop the rise of homegrown terrorism in the U.S.?
  2. Should more gun control laws be enacted in the U.S.?
  3. Should there be a legal penalty for using racial slurs?
  4. Should the death penalty be used in all cases involving first-degree murder?
  5. Should prisons be privately owned?Why or why not?
  6. How has the social class of your parents and your upbringing influenced your success in school and your professional aspirations?
  7. What is the social class of most of the people with whom you hang out? Why do you think you tend to associate with people from this social class?
  8. How is prestige affected by prejudice and discrimination

Do you believe we should have regular random drug testing for government officials? For example, politicians, judges, probation officers, police officer, etc. Why or why not?

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Discussion Questions

You don’t have to answer every question below, but you do need to answer at least 5 questions. Basically, answer the ones that are most appealing to you.

1) Recently, we have had transgender boys and girls who competed based on their gender in transition, that is, transgender boys competing against girls and vice versa. Many people argued it is not a fair matchup as the hormone pills enhances their athletic ability. Being the pills taken are considered drugs, what are your thoughts on this issue?

2) Do you believe we should have regular random drug testing for government officials? For example, politicians, judges, probation officers, police officer, etc. Why or why not?

3) What type of criminal punishment do you think we ought to give people who sexually assault others while he or she is drunk?

4) For years, groups like “Mothers Against Drunk Drivers” (M.A.D.D.) have had some success with lobbing legislatures for harsher criminal punishment for Driving While Intoxicated (D.W.I.), yet DWI remains a leading cause of death in our country. With that said and if you were a legislator, what new law (that does not already exist) would you enact to stop or entirely prevent drunk driving?

5) When people are drunk and behave unwisely and with the exemption of sexual assault, who do you think is at fault, the drunk person or those who react to the situation?

6) If we allow the use of drugs both natural and artificial, like 5-hour energy drinks or ginseng/ginger tea, do you believe we should allow athletics the same privilege to enhance their endurances?1) Recently, we have had transgender boys and girls who competed based on their gender in transition, that is, transgender boys competing against girls and vice versa. Many people argued it is not a fair matchup as the hormone pills enhances their athletic ability. Being the pills taken are considered drugs, what are your thoughts on this issue?

Watch these short videos to get your thoughts going…..

Performance-Enhancing Drugs and Drug Testing in Sports

Transgender Wrestlers

Drunk Drivers & Fights

Effects of Alcohol Abuse

Alcohol Intoxicated People

Provide counter-arguments and briefly disprove the arguments.

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Argumentative essay

– Provide counter-arguments and briefly disprove the arguments.
– In-text quotations and references are very important and must come from scholarly sources and be cited.
-Its an argumentative essay/analytical paper

Is this a local, regional, or national problem? Why are you concerned about it? Why should others be concerned about it. In addition to the social and political implications of this problem, are there concerning fiscal (financial) issues at play.

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Sociology Question

DRAFT:

Individual Assignment #1 Due: Draft ideas for the Sociopolitical Problem (SP) Paper (2.5 – 5 pp., 1-2 additional pages is okay, double-spaced, 10-12 size font). The SP Paper is essentially an analysis where a sociopolitical problem is discussed and a set of ideas including plans are outlined to address it. In your paper, incorporate ideas and concepts that you are learning about in this course or that are related to this course. For this draft, at minimum at least 75% of the final paper requirements should be addressed. Ideally, you should address all requirements (in draft form). Yes, you can use bullets or a formal outline format. The following bulleted areas outline the guidelines for the final paper, which you should begin addressing in this draft assignment.

State your interest in learning more about and/or doing something about a particular sociopolitical problem in society. Focus on an issue that you are concerned about in your community, city, state, or in the country generally. Succinctly delineate and describe the problem and frame as a policy issue that you feel should be addressed; briefly unpack its social and especially its political aspects. Address the following: Is this a local, regional, or national problem? Why are you concerned about it? Why should others be concerned about it. In addition to the social and political implications of this problem, are there concerning fiscal (financial) issues at play.

Specifics relating to this problem; for example, address these questions: Which stakeholders are impacted (who is directly or indirectly impacted)? How did this issue come about (from your perspective based on research, data, etc.)? What available data are available on the issue (statistics, research studies, media coverage, etc.)? What has been done politically in recent years to try to address it?

Some political rights, processes, protocols, timelines, and institutions that can be used to help you address the problem, including: protesting and raising awareness, recruiting people to join the effort and organizing support, involving and acquiring the backing of some elected public office holder or public institution, utilizing the legal system/judiciary if appropriate, establishing a start date and end date with some steps briefly outlined, soliciting for funds and using this funding, etc. While you are not expected to include all these areas, select at least two from this list (those that are most relevant to your issue). Example: (1) raising awareness and protesting publicly, and (2) contacting specific elected public officials to get their support.

Share the relevant theoretical and practical politically-related ideas and concepts you plan to use from this course or from other appropriate courses in your analysis of the problem and in your plans to address it. Clearly specify the political theories, concepts, or ideas.

Sources you used to develop this paper: include in text citations and a formal reference section at the end (use an APA, ASA, or applicable format). Your references page should be an additional one to two pages beyond the minimum paper page requirement. At least 2 to 4 references (aim for one source to be research-oriented; you can include more than the specified number of sources).

Summary of the structure of this paper:

  • (1) keep in mind that this assignment in many respects is a policy paper;
  • (2) identify at least two items from the list under the third bulleted guideline above and emphasize the political nature, propose a policy, and include a timeline;
  • (3) write using the formalities typical of an analytical essay or short research paper—focused on a policy issue, include an introduction, body, conclusion, and references;
  • (4) consider using headings and come up with a descriptive and catchy title to convey at-a-glance the sociopolitical problem you identified; and
  • (5), while not expected in this paper, you may develop and share a thesis or hypothesis if it helps you.